Melanie Griffith Quotes & Sayings

You only got one life. You can't sit around waiting for your next life to begin. — Melanie Griffith

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life. — Melanie Griffith

It's not about my career now. It's just about finding great work and having a good time. — Melanie Griffith

I really love working. It makes me feel like an even better person when I work. I function much better if I have a really rigid schedule. When I'm left to my own devices, I can just be all over the place. — Melanie Griffith

If they could cut off my head and put it onto another body that was, like, 20 years old, I would do that. — Melanie Griffith

I've worked a lot. I don't like to watch myself. I don't go to the movies unless I have to go to the premiere. — Melanie Griffith

Most people are telling me I look horrible. — Melanie Griffith

I would be really happy to be working and be able to do my craft. — Melanie Griffith

There's nothing wrong with a male's point of view, obviously, but it's just a different way of telling a story. — Melanie Griffith

I don't walk around with fear. I walk around with strength. I believe in cause and effect. — Melanie Griffith

I've just recently gotten divorced so I have a whole new horizon to conquer. — Melanie Griffith

Oh, my career. What career? I'm over 40. — Melanie Griffith

In Spain there's the king - and then there's Antonio. — Melanie Griffith

Angelina Jolie may get Antonio Banderas in bed for eight hours on a movie set, but I get him in bed everyday. — Melanie Griffith

People are not used to seeing an older woman on screen, unless she's playing a character role. Why can't they make a movie about a woman who's forty-five who's falling in love or getting divorced? Why does the leading role always have to be a woman who's twenty-three or twenty-eight? — Melanie Griffith

I'm more relaxed about life now that I'm older. I like it, despite the wrinkles. It's what I feel inside that's precious. — Melanie Griffith

I would just like to be able to give to people through acting. If I can entertain people by being somebody else and allow somebody to feel something, then that makes me feel good. — Melanie Griffith

I have terrible PMS. I just went a little crazy. — Melanie Griffith

There are many ups and downs in everyone's life and when you're an actor usually you're a very sensitive human being. — Melanie Griffith

I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me. — Melanie Griffith

People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice. — Melanie Griffith

I'm not a feminist, but I just think it's a really cool process working with a woman as a director. — Melanie Griffith

To break boundaries interests me. With all the knowledge that is available now in the world, it should be accessible to everyone. You can get so much information on the Internet now, and yet there are so many places in the world where people just don't have the education. — Melanie Griffith

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart. — Melanie Griffith

I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke? — Melanie Griffith

You know who helped me a lot? Jane Fonda. She said, Look at how many times I've been up and I've been down. So don't worry about anything. — Melanie Griffith

There are no small parts; there are only small actors. — Melanie Griffith

There's a sculpture in our bedroom, a solid brass replica of Antonio's manhood. It's very expensive, he gave it to me as a romantic gift. — Melanie Griffith

I'm an actress so the amount of rejection and commentary you get right to your face is pretty rough. — Melanie Griffith

When I was 34, people would say, What's going to happen to you when you're 40? What are you going to do? You don't have much time left. And I was like, what are you talking about? — Melanie Griffith

I have four kids - they're 19 to 33 - that I love more than anything. — Melanie Griffith